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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Originally posted by Docker_Brat
Signed it.
I have to agree with Danni, swearing in something like this will not allow it to get a hearing by the people who need to see it, the petition will lack any sort of credibilty.
Keep the comments succint and don't resort to abuse, to get suits to listen you must speak their language.
Originally posted by AFLTN
Golden Hawk, you are obviously a regular to AFL , cause if you wanted Patrick Smith's email maybe you should check out the AFL site, he writes a column for them every Saturday, so I am sure he will get right behind your cause - not.
I think you all forget some basic fundamenatal things about the AFL site, my sources suggest the following:
1 - The old site was run by other media giants News Ltd & Channel 7 (Remember News Ltd and their fialed SuperLeague fiasco)
2 - These 2 giants refused to provide Telstra or the AFL any of the content from the old site, and had to be sourced again from scratch.
3 - It took 4 years for the old site to get to where it was, so this site is only 11 weeks old!
4 - We can now watch football, games in full on the internet, NEVER before has this been available (I'm happy to pay for it)
Maybe instaed of bagging it and coming up with childish petitions, we should be encouraging with constructive suggestions on how to improve. Some of the crap on your petiution just goes to show how pathetic some of you are.
Plus to al the regulars who also post on Essendon'd forum, can you watch the mighty Bombers beat the Kangaroos in that classic game last year, or watch Lloyd kick his goals every week, on Rama's run etc etc whenever you want to 24x7 - I can!
Go Bombers
PS: I belive that a representative from the AFL site will be speaking on 3AW tonight, around 6.30pm
It sounds like you will be that representative. The old site had heaps of info and historical data....why sell the site to Telstra? just greed as it was working so well....why would the old guys who did so much work give it the backstabbers?Originally posted by AFLTN
Golden Hawk, you are obviously a regular to AFL , cause if you wanted Patrick Smith's email maybe you should check out the AFL site, he writes a column for them every Saturday, so I am sure he will get right behind your cause - not.
......yadda yadda yadda......
PS: I belive that a representative from the AFL site will be speaking on 3AW tonight, around 6.30pm
Originally posted by AFLTN
These 2 giants refused to provide Telstra or the AFL any of the content from the old site, and had to be sourced again from scratch.
Originally posted by M29
Crap. I reckon my site has more historical info than the current bombersfc.com.au site. Since when do news ltd own all the old historical info? Ladder info, matches info etc...
Sounds like that creepy new marketing scheme where kids are paid to tell their friends about the latest thing, so everyone will want it, even though it is crap.Originally posted by mantis
Totally agree with you M29, also why am I suspicious who this brand new poster is aligned with.
Glad to see that you're sarcastic.Originally posted by AFLTN
Glad to see that you are all so well informed.
Page weight may well be lighter, but experience tells me that the home page takes longer to load than it did last year. Many other have the same experience. Paying $50 for a service that was free refers to the live audio broadcast of the game, not this wonderful "match vision" that would be accessed by less than 5% of your website's visitors (being the percentage of people connected by cable). Behind the scenes stuff? Does that refer to the press conferences? That you get live, for free, on 3AW right after the match. Where did I put my cheque book?Originally posted by AFLTN
There are stats - the pages are less in page weight than last year (I have been told that the designers of this year are the same ones who did last year). Paying $50 for a service that was free, you are ill informed - you could never get match vision, create your own highlights packages or see all the behind the scenes stuff you now can -
Ooh, and patronising too - you must be a Telstra representative. Few would be worried too much about archived articles - they would be nice to have access to but if people cared enough they would have saved them to disk at the time. More would be worried about historical archives, player's career statistics and the records of the AFL. If I want to find out about last year's game between Hawthorn and Geelong, I don't go the AFL website, I go to an unofficial, amateur site. Why? Because I know it will be there, I know where to find it and I know the bloody site will actually be working.Originally posted by AFLTN
And you guys have never heard of Intellectual property obviously. Please don't comment on things you know nothing about - I don't think you can "easily" obtain info from papers, they all have to be paid for.
Thankyou for doing my budget for me. Tell me, does Telstra install most of the broadband connections to the AFL website's customer base? Lovely bit of cross-pollination there. And it doesn't matter how fast or slow your connection is, if the sodding site doesn't load at all. Like it didn't for 24+ hours last weekend, like it didn't this week as well.Originally posted by AFLTN
Computer quality has minimal to do with it - it's the connection speed of a 56k line compared to a broadband connection that makes all the difference, and if people can afford an internet connection and call charges, they can afford broadband.
$40 a month for standard Foxtel, which has nothing to do with the AFL. The extra for me is an average of $8 a month for the 12 months pass I have. $96 a year. Not $70 a month. Can I create my own highlights package? Sure, I've got two videos. Can I see every game, without ads, plus those precious press conferences, as well as historical footage, and all the rest of the Fox Footy extras. Yep. Can I turn on the telly and be sure of seeing the channel working? Yep. Can I do that for afl.com.au? No I cannot.Originally posted by AFLTN
As for FoxFooty, that's $70 PER MONTH not per year, and can you create your own highlights on Fox Footy?
No, sunshine. You work it out. It's your balls-up.Originally posted by AFLTN
I am enjoying this debate and you guys do have sone valid points which I believe will be fixed in time, but remember as I stated earlier the old site 4 years in the making, this site 11 weeks. You work it out
Hmmm. Three posts, all in the same thread, all supporting Telstra and the AFL, the only person doing so. I guess if you love a debate so much, we'll look forward to seeing your contributions in more than just one thread.Originally posted by AFLTN
Just to let you guys know - I don't work for either T or the AFL. just someone who likes a debate.
I thought they were based on the facts?]Originally posted by AFLTN
Seems some of the things I suggest, based on my opinion upste some of you experts.